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Subject: Re: Query Regarding Netmap
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Robert Clove <cloverobert@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Sir,
>
> I am a student and i am working on a project in which we have mellanox NI=
C
> cards.
> Is your netmap supported on Mellanox?
> If yes, how to load the netmap driver,where to get the files....
>

=E2=80=8Bhi,
i had some mellanox patches to support netmap natively, but only for linux.
This said, the card seems unable to go beyond ~7Mpps so you might still
get similar results with the emulated netmap mode, which only uses
the netmap kernel module without any driver modification.

Cheers
luigi
=E2=80=8B

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